A Practical Commentary on the Epistle of Jude

2. 'Tis a sin against Mercy, and those of all others are most dangerous, when you abuse Grace, you make Grace your enemy; and 'tis ill for creatures when Grace is their enemy, and there is nothing left for them but Justice and Wrath; Justice will take up the quarrel of abused Mercy, and as Grace is despised, so wrath taketh place; they treasure up wrath, &c. Rom. 2. 4, 5.

3. 'Tis soul ingratitude to turn our mercies into a provocation, to make a Calf of our Earrings, and to serve our lusts of Gods Providence, as he said of Adam, that what he received [Greek or Hebrew] a Rib he returned [Greek or Hebrew] a Dart, alluding to his fall by Eve; so he fight against God with his own weapons, what vile ingratitude is that? See Jer. 5. 7. Ezek. 7. 20. To ⟨p. 217⟩make Plenty the fuel of our lusts, what is it but to ^*make God serve with our sins, and to grow worse for the Gospel, black and tawny because the Sun of Righteousness hath looked upon us? 'tis as it were to give it out to the World, as if he did serve with our sins by his own consent, and we had a license from heaven to do what we do.

3. 'Tis soul ingratitude to turn our mercies into a provocation, to make a Calf of our Earings, and to serve our lusts of Gods Providence, as he said of Adam, that what he received 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 a Rib he returned 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 a Dart, alluding to his fall by Eve; so he fight against God with his own weapons, what vile ingratitude is that? See